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I plenty magician, I thinkee." Ted looked in the chicken house, and on the floor lay the dried hide of a big gray wolf. Now he understood. The message had come the third time from the Flying Demons. "Kit, run around to the front door and see if there is a message there for us from our friends the Demons." In a moment Kit was back, holding a piece of paper in his hand.
Ling observed the motion, and shrank back guiltily. "Oh, mastel," he quavered, "me thinkee me heal a sound ovel hele fol me too flightened to sleep and me come hele to see what the mattel." "What kind of sound did you think you heard?" queried Frobisher, looking the man square in the eyes. Ling tried to return the gaze, but failed.
"Allee done," said Ching. "Execution man have velly much plactice." He said this to me, but I made no reply, for the whole place seemed to be going round and round. "You thinkee they all come back again and have junk? Go kill shoot evelybody, pilate ghost-man?" "No," I said hoarsely; "can we go now?" "Velly soon. Gleat clowd all along gate. Lookee, Mis' Tanner go s'eep."
Ching not captain. Ching catchee." "How?" I said. "Take big ship back to liver. Put big gun, put jolly sailor 'board two big junk, and go sail 'bout. Pilate come thinkee catchee plenty silk, plenty tea. Come aboard junk. Jolly sailor chop head off, and no more pilate." "That sounds well, Ching," I said; "but I don't think we could do that." "No catchee pilate?" he said. "Ching velly tire.
With this object they repaired to the shop of Tung-Cheong, the Buckmaster, of Victoria. Mr Tung-Cheong came forward with a smiling countenance, guessing, as he surveyed the tattered uniforms of the three midshipmen, what they required. "Me thinkee greatest tailor in the world.
Ching thinkee muchee so. Now go sleepee. Velly much tire." He curled himself up, drawing his tail round out of the way, and seemed to go off directly; while I rejoined the officer of the watch, who happened to be Mr Brooke, and we walked right forward to the bows, and saw that the men were keeping a bright look-out. "Well, Herrick," he said, "got your dirk sharp?" "No," I said.
No A sekittary prime minister? No A member of parliament? No Ide a bin treasurer! Treasurer of the three kinkdums. Ide a handled the kole! I've a feathered my nest as it is; and what would I a done then thinkee? Stick close to Sir Arthur. Mind your hits, and you have him a safe enough. Didn't I always tellee you must catch 'n by the ear? A cunnin curr always catches a pig by the ear.
"All ledee now," he said, holding a stirrup for Peggy to mount. "But how will you explain it? Won't they kill you when they find the ponies are gone?" asked Roy. The Oriental laughed the throaty, mirthless chuckle of his race. "I tellee them you steal them," he said; "they no thinkee Ali Sing hab good sense enough to help you. All litee now. Good bye."
"You thinkee get out other way?" said Ching at last, with his lips to my ear. "I think not," I whispered back. "Mustn't look out this way," he whispered again. "You go light to end and look see if pilate going stop." I was so eager to get an observation of the enemy, that I hurriedly crept along the narrow passage.
"Master, I thinkee you makee catch two piecee men makee carry. This b'long no proper road. P'raps you makee bad feet come." And truly my feet were shamefully blistered. One had to step from stone to stone with considerable agility.
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